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We need be bold and adventuresome in our thinking in order to survive.

William O. Douglas

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William O. Douglas
Age: 81 †
Born: 1898
Born: October 16
Died: 1980
Died: January 19
Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Judge
Lawyer
Trade Unionist
University Teacher
William Orville Douglas
William Douglas
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Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.
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There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.
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Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
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Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.
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The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.
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The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.
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I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
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Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the First Amendment draws no distinction between the various methods of communicating ideas.
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When man ventures into the wilderness, climbs the ridges, and sleeps in the forest, he comes in close communion with his Creator. When man pits himself against the mountain, he taps inner springs of his strength. He comes to know himself.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
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When a man knows how to live amid danger, he is not afraid to die. When he is not afraid to die, he is, strangely, free to live.
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Violence has no constitutional sanction and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.
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We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times where there are no secrets from government.
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The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
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A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
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